Newsflash: democracy doesn’t work

Of course, instead of admitting the whole thing was a ridiculously hopeless concept from the start, they’ll simply refocus on new objectives: Nightmarish political realities in Baghdad are prompting American officials to curb their vision for democracy in Iraq. Instead, the officials now say they are willing to settle for a government that functions and […]

A new trend is spotted

Chiefs TE Tony Gonzalez commits without putting his financial future at risk: Tony Gonzalez is officially off the market. Well, sort of officially. Tony G isn’t getting married, but he is planning a “formal commitment ceremony” on July 20 in Huntington Beach, Calif., where he’ll pledge his love to girlfriend October Russell. A formal commitment […]

David Halberstam: media scum

I quite enjoyed his sports writing, I had no idea he was apparently such an dishonest piece of journalistic refuse: The leading American journalists in Vietnam during 1963, they favored American involvement in Vietnam, in stark contrast to the press corps of the war’s latter years. But they had a low opinion of South Vietnamese […]

Anti-migration is the winning stance

In case you’re too thick to have grasped this yet: Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, who gained national prominence by targeting illegal immigrants living in his small northeastern Pennsylvania city, cruised to the Republican nomination for a third term on Tuesday – and unexpectedly won the Democratic nomination, too. Barletta trounced GOP challenger Dee Deakos with […]

The High Art of Games + Romero interview

HALO and the High Art of Games: a history of the First Person Shooter From The HALO Effect BenBella Books, April 2007 In 1849, the great composer Richard Wagner described what he considered to be the ideal artwork of the future, a holistic unification of the high arts he christened Gesamtkunstwerk. Wagner proposed this artistic […]

Me So Ho

Me So Michelle gets her ho on at National Socialist Review: The Rutgers women’s basketball team didn’t deserve to be disrespected as “nappy-headed hos.” No woman deserves that. I agree with the athletes that Imus’s misogynist mockery was “deplorable, despicable and unconscionable.” And, as I noted on Fox News’s O’Reilly Factor this week, I believe […]

Don’t laugh

That would be anti-semitic: The Israeli ambassador to El Salvador has been recalled after he was found drunk, naked and bound in sexual bondage gear in his yard, an official said Monday. The British Broadcasting Corp. reported that he could identify himself to police only after a rubber ball had been removed from his mouth…. […]

I have a number

And I’d like to know yours. Specifically, I’d like to get your count on two things: 1) The total number of known officially atheist national governments in world history. 2) The total number of estimated officially Christian national governments in world history. This can be trickier than it looks. For example, Sweden is commonly cited […]

Home of the Atheidiot

The godless commenters at Pharyngurl’s are almost as irrational as they are breathtakingly ignorant: They’re afraid that you’re going to do to them what they did to you and to anyone who didn’t think EXACTLY like them. They’re afraid that once the atheists take over, religion will be banned and its practitioners rounded up, jailed […]

That’s not a hard one

Over at Brent Rasmussen’s site, Jim Downey has a hard time understanding why most people would rather vote for a retarded Dachshund of questionable moral character and only three legs for President of the United States than a “generally well-qualified” atheist: Yup. Bottom of the list. [Gallup Poll indicating 45 percent would vote for an […]